Re: [Usability] Volume Control Consistency between Rhythmbox and Totem

[Thomas Conneely <tom conneely17 ntlworld com>]

Boris Goldowsky wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 12:28 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
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> > This brings me to the concept of the Sensible GNOME Volume Control: each
> > opened program that accesses the sound server makes itself known
> > (preferably via DBUS with fallback for non-GNOME programs). The SGVC then
> > shows sliders for each of those processes...
> >    
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> Yes!  That's precisely what I've been wishing for since I started
> putting music on my computer.  If programs have individual volume
> controls, that's fine (if done consistently, as the original poster was
> suggesting), but some programs that send sounds (such as Gaim, or gnome
> event sounds) don't and shouldn't have volume controls in their
> interfaces.  Seeing all sound-sending programs in the volume control
> applet's "mixer" would be great, and far more usable than the current mixer
although this might be a good idea, couldn't it get confusing, if I am 
running a few audio applications (for sound engineering) this could get 
very confusing. Perhaps a slider affecting all MP3s/oggs, a slider for 
movies (ie DVDs and mpegs) and then a seperate slider for system sounds 
(i.e gaim). This would require applications to register the type of 
output with gnome before beginning playback (thus creating problems for 
programmer as to what type of audio output) but allows grouping of 
"volume types".

An extension to this idea would the allowing of custom sliders to be 
created by applications, but this should be discouraged and displayed 
seperatetly somehow.